IMF's Lagarde urges Britain, EU to save 'long marriage'

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde urged Britain and the European Union Thursday to keep communications open to avoid the failure of an “long marriage” with the Brexit vote. “It’s been a long marriage between members of the European Union,” she said. Speaking at the opening of the spring meetings of the World bank and IMF, she called the risk that Britain would decide to pull out of the 28-nation European Union — “Brexit” — a “serious concern” to the global economy.